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Outer Worlds 2

Lucky Trait Effects

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Lucky is a Trait in The Outer Worlds 2. Learn how Lucky affects your gameplay, and see information on its effects and advantages or disadvantages in this guide!

Lucky Trait Advantages

Helps Complete Quests

Having the Lucky Trait allows you to occasionally use your luck to pass skill checks that aid with quest completion.

For example, having Luck during the prologue allows you to hack into a terminal through sheer luck, making the succeeding area much easier to deal with. Luck can even help you to save an entire city at the end of the The Saboteur of Paradise main quest in Paradise Island.
List of All Main Quests

Essential for Gambler Crit Build

The Lucky Trait is an essential choice of the Gambler build, which relies on increasing critical hit chance and critical hit damage to deal shocking amounts of damage.
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Lucky Trait Details

Trait Effects

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1 +5% Critical Chance
2 Certain opportunites are just accessible to you.

Traits are one of the many roleplaying elements in Outer Worlds 2, affecting your gameplay experience and allowing you access to unique interactions with the world and its NPCs.
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Trait Type and Description

Trait Type Description
Positive You're lucky, things tend to go your way.

Outer Worlds 2 Related Guides

Traits Partial

List of All Traits

All Positive Traits

List of Positive Traits
Innovative Lucky Nimble
Brilliant Heroic Brawny
Resilient Suave Witty

All Negative Traits

List of Negative Traits
Abrasive Dumb Sickly

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